Monday, May 31, 2004, Paris, France, Europe

As a number of you know, we have opened up an ‘international peer support’ panel
to gather views on and support of the Mayor of London’s Congestion Charging
program, to support our nomination of the mayor for the World Technology
Network’s 2004 Environment Prize. You will find full information on this on the
New Mobility Agenda site at http://newmobility.org.

A quick reminder of what the WTN prize seeks to commend: “The World Technology
Awards have been created to honour those individual leaders or, at times,
co-equal teams from across the globe who most contribute to the advance of
emerging technologies of all sorts for the benefit of business and society. We
especially seek to honour those innovators who have done work recently which
has the greatest likely future significance and impact over the long-term. The
WTN awards are about those individuals whose work today will, in our opinion,
create the greatest "ripple effects" in the future... in both expected and
unexpected ways."

Our support for this nomination is a function of our firm conviction that
massive innovation in many areas is critical if we are ever to break the
Sustainable Mobility gridlock. And this, like carsharing, clearing all the cars
off the streets for one day and a certain number of other less familiar
approaches, is one that in my view should be getting a lot more attention.

I invite you to have a look at the issues and views, and make your voice heard.
Again, the poll closes on this on 15 June, at which time we submit our
collective recommendations and observations to the other members of the WTN
jury, of which I have the honor to be one.

Eric Britton